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Favorite The problem with Dualism in KM is that it leads to pendulum swings in terms of focus. Here is how to avoid this. Image form wikimedia commons There can be quite a lot of Dualism in KM – seeing KM in terms of two mutually exclusive opposites which require
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Shared by Nick Milton May 2, 2019
Favorite One of the interesting results from our 2014 and 2017 surveys of KM was to compare KM maturity against different industries. Our Knowledge management surveys in 2014 and 2017, responded to by over 700 knowledge managers world wide, asked (among many other things) about KM maturity, in two ways:
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Favorite KM is an investment of time to save even more time. Image from wikimedia commons Here is an extract from a conversation last week. Me: Can you give me any examples where the Community of Practice could add value?Client: At the last meeting we identified one of these –
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Favorite A while ago I posted 4 KM team roles from the US Army, based on their 2012 publication “Knowledge Management Operations”. Here is an update. Lt. Col. Mary Cheyne; the knowledge management officer for the joint operations compound. U.S. Army photo by Barry Wilson The 2012 publication has been
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Favorite This post contains two more entries in a long series of examples of quantified value delivery from KM. The two examples below come from the article “Knowledge management in a steel company : a case study of the Gerdau Group” written in 2009 by Marcelo Kuhn, and both refer to
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Favorite This blog has often argued for Knowledge Management Plans as part of a KM Framework. Here is NASA’s take on the topic. You can find NASA’s introduction to KM plans here. Screengrab from NASA Appel KM toolbox site This document makes the following points: The plan is a requirement for
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Favorite In any project, the most expensive item is the mistakes. Use KM, modularisation and standardisation to keep mistakes to the minimum. Arches, a photo by Paul Ebbo on Flickr. The title of this blog post comes from a quote by the author Ken Follet in his book “The Pillars
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Favorite Knowledge Management is the discipline that drives continuous improvement. Here is a diagram that makes this clear We are all familiar with the link between Knowledge and continuous improvement in our personal lives, as demonstrated by the familiar saying “Practice Makes Perfect”. The more we do something, the better
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Favorite There is a step in the maturation of communities of practice when their focus shifts from knowledge sharing to collaboration Working together, a photo by Hepcat75 on Flickr. Collaboration is an unnatural act in humans. We are tribal animals, and all our instincts lead us to see life in
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Favorite This is a reprise and update of an old post, which visits an even older KM argument. CocaColaLabel, a photo by purpleslog on Flickr. There was a heated discussion a while ago on one of the LinkedIn forums, entitled “Is the Coca Cola recipe knowledge, or information?” There were,
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